Transport Scotland A96 Corridor Review: EIR release
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004
Information requested
“Please provide all correspondence between Fiona Hyslop and her advisors over the A96 Corridor Review, and the consultation responses over it, from 1 October 2025 to date.”
Response
As the information you have requested is 'environmental information' for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
Under regulation 6(1)(b) of the EIRs, we do not have to give you information which is already publicly available and easily accessible to you in another form or format. A previous EIR covers part of your request from the 1 October 2025 to the 16 October 2025. This can be found using the following link: Transport Scotland A96 dualling documentation: EIR release - gov.scot
Please refer to Annex A which contains extracts of briefings and submissions between Fiona Hyslop and her officials over the A96 Corridor Review from the 17 October 2025 to the 12 November 2025.
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